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Man City suspend Benjamin Mendy following rape charge

Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy has been accused of four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault
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hope an example is made of him and he goes to prison if found guilty. feel bad for the other players and pep who'll have to deal wit the shit-storm, but that's nothing compared to how bad I feel for the victims. city need to respond to this with initiatives to combat sexual violence and all violence against women. simply disowning mendy isn't enough.
 
I came on to say that Ronaldo has signed for Man City which I thought was :eek: but it seems a bit flat in view of the last couple of posts.
 
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My wife texted me earlier and said "Ronaldo, wtf!" and for a panicked moment I assumed OG Ronaldo - him with the smile - had died from too much cake. But no, just a story about Gelboy not-signing for City.
 
Flavour said:
hope an example is made of him and he goes to prison if found guilty. feel bad for the other players and pep who'll have to deal wit the shit-storm, but that's nothing compared to how bad I feel for the victims. city need to respond to this with initiatives to combat sexual violence and all violence against women. simply disowning mendy isn't enough.
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Probably best if they don't sign ronaldo as well.
 
The Ronaldo rumours instinctively seem kinda odd; just a whole bunch of "how's that gonna work?" and wondering quite why City'd bother.

I know, I know, money and/or prestige, but would still be surprised (though certainly curious!) to see it happen.

It'd totally fuck with FPL, too! :D

For City fans: in theory, ending the summer with Grealish + Ronaldo rather than Messi + Kane, how would you feel with that?
 
Lord Camomile said:
The Ronaldo rumours instinctively seem kinda odd; just a whole bunch of "how's that gonna work?" and wondering quite why City'd bother.

I know, I know, money and/or prestige, but would still be surprised (though certainly curious!) to see it happen.

It'd totally fuck with FPL, too! :D

For City fans: in theory, ending the summer with Grealish + Ronaldo rather than Messi + Kane, how would you feel with that?
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29 goals in 33 games for Juventus last year. Which is astonishing for a 48 yr old or whatever he is.

They need a striker, so he seems like a good fit - at least for a season or two.

And yeah, would instantly fuck up my FPL team.
 
tommers said:
29 goals in 33 games for Juventus last year. Which is astonishing for a 48 yr old or whatever he is.

They need a striker, so he seems like a good fit - at least for a season or two.
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Yeah, did realise aftewards that they need a replacement for Aguero.

Honigstein doesn't sound entirely convinced, but intrigued nonetheless!

Honigstein: "Juventus are really trying to offload Ronaldo and there is even talk of him maybe going for free because they are so desperate to get him off the wage bill and because of how little in their mind he is contributing - not enough.

"I asked [Italian football writer] James Horncastle earlier if Juventus are stronger with or without Ronaldo in the Champions League and he had no hesitation in saying 'without Ronaldo'. That's what Juventus think of him at the moment and not just for financial reasons. It's really interesting that City and Guardiola think that he is somehow going to be the missing piece that stands between them and the Champions League when it didn't work out at Juventus that way."

"He doesn't strike you as a Pep player. He doesn't strike you as someone who wants to play in a collective system. It's a strange one, but really exciting for all of us to see how it's going to play out.

"For a team that effectively walked the Premier League, for a team that was one dodgy line-up away from winning the Champions League, Guardiola somehow persuades himself that he needs Jack Grealish and Harry Kane to complete the puzzle. That seems counter-intuitive and now to go for Cristiano Ronaldo seems even more counter-intuitive. I just couldn't contemplate that City would go for him, and now here we are on the verge of this move happening."
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Also questions as to whether it'd impact a move for Haaland, although I wasn't aware City were the frontrunners for him anyway.
 
Lord Camomile said:
Yeah, did realise aftewards that they need a replacement for Aguero.

Honigstein doesn't sound entirely convinced, but intrigued nonetheless!



Also questions as to whether it'd impact a move for Haaland, although I wasn't aware City were the frontrunners for him anyway.
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I guess wages aren't an issue for them but not followed Juventus enough to know why somebody scoring a goal a game wouldn't make them stronger. Guess he wants to make it all about him. Might really fuck City up, which would be good.

Think Chelsea will run them close this year, poss Liverpool too. Lukaku will get 20 easy, most of them against us.
 
tommers said:
I guess wages aren't an issue for them but not followed Juventus enough to know why somebody scoring a goal a game wouldn't make them stronger. Guess he wants to make it all about him. Might really fuck City up, which would be good.

Think Chelsea will run them close this year, poss Liverpool too. Lukaku will get 20 easy, most of them against us.
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Guess it's that thing of "the game ain't just about goals", and perhaps when he's scoring those goals? Not saying this is the case as I haven't been watching either, but could be he's bagging most of his goals in 6-0 drubbings while not getting them in the narrow losses that win/lose you trophies?
 
Lord Camomile said:
Yeah, did realise aftewards that they need a replacement for Aguero.

Honigstein doesn't sound entirely convinced, but intrigued nonetheless!



Also questions as to whether it'd impact a move for Haaland, although I wasn't aware City were the frontrunners for him anyway.
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The notion that Guardiola would think that Ronaldo would be 'the missing piece' for the CL is terribly misplaced to be honest. City lost a final in which in a tight game they had opportunities to win despite what many thought was the wrong line up. Haaland will only be available to a small selection of clubs and whoever wants him still has to deal with an agent who in any other world would be up for extortion.

Ronaldo would do well at City he can come deep for the ball and lay it off to after players , his control and passing is excellent, one of the best in the air and generally finishes well. A season there actually takes the pressure off looking at the current market , which finished very shortly , giving some space to see what other strikers develop. Might not happen but if it did it would work well imo.
 
The39thStep said:
The notion that Guardiola would think that Ronaldo would be 'the missing piece' for the CL is terribly misplaced to be honest. City lost a final in which in a tight game they had opportunities to win despite what many thought was the wrong line up. Haaland will only be available to a small selection of clubs and whoever wants him still has to deal with an agent who in any other world would be up for extortion.

Ronaldo would do well at City he can come deep for the ball and lay it off to after players , his control and passing is excellent, one of the best in the air and generally finishes well. A season there actually takes the pressure off looking at the current market , which finished very shortly , giving some space to see what other strikers develop. Might not happen but if it did it would work well imo.
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Aye, can see the argument, and certainly the more I think about it the less it seems totally inexplicable.

I think it's partly just the long-standing Guardiola-Messi association, and obviously Ronaldo is always positioned in direct opposition with Messi. Plus, obviously, Guardiola's teams tend to focus on players functioning as one part of the overall team, and Ronaldo has a fairly well-earned reputation as a solo player who wants the team to work around him, rather than him work for the team (in the one sense, no argument that he works very bloody hard as a player).

Maybe that's changed somewhat in recent seasons, though, or he could change and function more in a traditional team manner.

Or, as you suggest, maybe for one or two seasons there could be an odd marriage of the two, with Ronaldo acting as the goal-scoring focal point supplied by the creative players behind and around him. Would certainly be interesting to see how his inclusion affects the team dynamic and how some of the other City players react.
 
Lord Camomile said:
Aye, can see the argument, and certainly the more I think about it the less it seems totally inexplicable.

I think it's partly just the long-standing Guardiola-Messi association, and obviously Ronaldo is always positioned in direct opposition with Messi. Plus, obviously, Guardiola's teams tend to focus on players functioning as one part of the overall team, and Ronaldo has a fairly well-earned reputation as a solo player who wants the team to work around him, rather than him work for the team (in the one sense, no argument that he works very bloody hard as a player).

Maybe that's changed somewhat in recent seasons, though, or he could change and function more in a traditional team manner.

Or, as you suggest, maybe for one or two seasons there could be an odd marriage of the two, with Ronaldo acting as the goal-scoring focal point supplied by the creative players behind and around him. Would certainly be interesting to see how his inclusion affects the team dynamic and how some of the other City players react.
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Yes take your point about the tendency for teams to work around Ronaldo although the Portuguese national side at the Euros did manage to get a fairer balance on this aspect this time around .
The City squad generally are very professional with few egos and have adapted to different formations and focal points . The only doubt in my mind would be the preening Grealish who would probably want to out Ronaldo Ronaldo.
 
It will be interesting to see how Ronaldo fits. What City have done well is finding a team that has a completely fluid front 5 - instead of 1 player contributing 30 goals as the focal point, they have a system that has any one of the 5 pop up in the centre forward position to finish. To work, it needs the nominal centre forward (whether Aguero, Jesus or the "false 9") to vacate the space as often as they occupy it. Which is why Kane made perfect sense as their Plan A because he's just as comfortable linking play 40yds from goal as he is scoring tap ins.

Ronaldo is nowadays the complete penalty area player, but not so much outside of it. I think in this team he'll score that 30 odd and look an individual success, but Sterling, Jesus, Torres, Foden, De Bruyne, Mahrez, Silva, Gundogan, Grealish will see their goalscoring contributions go down.
 
The shirt sales thing as club revenue isn't apparently as straightforward as we think. Clubs generally receive 10-15% on shirt sales the rest goes to the shirt maker and the holder of the image rights.
 
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